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- July 28, 2025
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Viral SLPP’s list of Flagbearer candidates for 2028 presidential election is false!
Claim: A viral list circulating on Facebook featured several top government officials of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) vying for the party’s “flagbearer position” in the forthcoming 2028 presidential election. Verdict: False! The Sierra Leone’s People’s Party’s (SLPP) outgoing national Secretary General, Umaro Napoleon Koroma, Esq., told DUBAWA via phone that the viral …
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- July 28, 2025
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Did Sanusi criticise Tinubu over claim of inheriting dilapidated Nigeria from Buhari?
Claim: Facebook users attributed a lengthy statement to Emir Sanusi, describing it as his response to President Tinubu’s claim that he inherited a dilapidated Nigeria from the Late President Muhammadu Buhari. Verdict: Misleading! Contrary to the claimants, the statement attributed to Emir Sanusi is an old tweet by Charly Boy. Full Text President Bola Tinubu …
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- July 28, 2025
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Facebook bloggers delete AI footage after DUBAWA’s fact check
Two Facebook bloggers, Reporter Masami and Simon Peter, have removed an AI-generated video they posted after DUBAWA’s fact check. In June 2025, DUBAWA came across a less than two-minute Facebook clip of a lion eating some of the meat sold at a grocery store after scaring off customers. Masami and other Facebook users, like Simon, …
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- July 28, 2025
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False! UN didn’t report a global shortage of men
Claim: UN data indicates a global shortage of men, projecting 5.6 billion women and 2.2 billion men by 2025. Verdict: The widely circulated assertion that the UN’s 2025 demographic report reveals a global shortage of men is false. The UN has not published such a report; recent statistics indicate that more men than women are …
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- July 28, 2025
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Is July 9, 2025, Earth’s shortest day?
Claim: Some Facebook users claimed that the Earth’s rotation on Jul. 9, 2025, was the fastest recorded in mankind’s history. Verdict: MISLEADING. Existing records revealed that the shortest day was Jul. 5, 2024, when the Earth’s spin was 1.66 milliseconds shorter. Data from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Services disclosed that Jul. 9, …
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- July 28, 2025
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Viral footage of bandits abducting soldiers from Mali, not Nigeria
Claim: A blogger shared a clip showing how bandits abducted Nigerian soldiers and took them away on bikes. Verdict: Misleading! While the footage is real, it is unrelated to Nigerian troops. The video shows how “Al-Qaeda-backed Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)” fighters abducted Malian soldiers after killing some of them on June 1, 2025, in …
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- July 28, 2025
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Round-Up: Ghana protest, Benue population claim, Earth’s shortest day, others top claims debunked this week
Social media is constantly buzzing with stories that spread in seconds, making it increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is not. This week, we examined major stories that grabbed public attention, from a viral NPP-police clash video falsely linked to anti-Igbo protests in Ghana to a misleading claim about July 9, 2025, …
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- July 23, 2025
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Image purportedly showing Peter Obi with Abacha AI-generated
Claim: A viral online image claims to show “a rare throwback” of former Anambra State governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, sharing coffee with Nigeria’s former military head of state, General Sani Abacha, at the Presidential Villa. Verdict: False! The image claiming to show Peter Obi and the late General Sani Abacha …
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- July 22, 2025
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Benue fifth most populated state; other claim by lawmaker fact-checked
Full Text Following the attacks on the Yelwata community in Benue State that claimed the lives of over a hundred people, Teseer Ugbor, member representing Kwande/Ushongo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, spoke about the issue with Channels TV. In an interview with Seun Okinbaloye on June 19, 2025, the lawmaker urged Benue residents …
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- July 22, 2025
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Israel-Iran conflict: Another dated social media video brought to life to paint new narrative
Claim: A Facebook user shared a video suggesting it shows Israeli politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Omer Bar-Lev arguing in response to the 2025 missile attack on Tel Aviv during the Israel-Iran conflict. Verdict: Misleading! The video is from March 2022 and shows an argument that occurred after a terrorist attack in Hadera, not in response …
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